Bāla Kāṇḍa 19: Daśaratha’s resistance: The army offered in Rāma’s place · 1.19.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.19.1

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 19: Daśaratha’s resistance: The army offered in Rāma’s place. Daśaratha resists sending the young Rāma, offers himself and his army instead and renews his refusal on hearing of Rāvaṇa’s power

In the sequence: Recovering, Daśaratha protests that Rāma is not yet sixteen and unready to face rākṣasas → he offers to go himself with a full army division and protect the observance

1.19.1

tac chrutvā rājaśārdūla viśvāmitrasya bhāṣitam
muhūrtam iva niḥsaṃjñaḥ saṃjñāvān idam abravīt

Hearing that utterance of Viśvāmitra, the tiger among kings, senseless as it were for a moment, then regaining his senses said this:

Words: tac — that; chrutvā — having heard; rājaśārdūla — the tiger among kings; viśvāmitrasya — of Viśvāmitra; bhāṣitam — the utterance, speech; muhūrtam — for a moment; iva — as it were; niḥsaṃjñaḥ — senseless, unconscious; saṃjñāvān — having regained his senses; idam — this; abravīt — said

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.